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School: Engineering

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Fundamentals of Flight

  • Unit Code

    SCA1125

  • Year

    2024

  • Enrolment Period

    1

  • Version

    3

  • Credit Points

    15

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online

  • Unit Coordinator

    Ms Fatemeh TAJROBEHKAR

Description

This is an introductory unit, essential to all students interested in pursuing an aviation career pathway The unit addresses major theoretical concepts relevant to both student pilots and general aviation professionals. The importance of basic aerodynamic theory for flight safety is emphasised and the peculiarities of light aircraft power plants and airframe systems are identified. The main concepts of visual air navigation, as a lead up to more sophisticated operations, are also clearly presented.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Examine the principal concepts of low speed aerodynamics and the creation, distribution and balance of aerodynamic forces in flight.
  2. Classify the differences between aircraft stability and control.
  3. Apply aerodynamic concepts associated with take-off, landing and flight manoeuvres.
  4. Examine the characteristics and operation of normally aspirated aircraft piston engines and associated systems.
  5. Apply knowledge of the operation of airframe systems and basic flight instruments of a light aircraft.

Unit Content

  1. Relevant aerodynamic terminology, aerodynamic forces.
  2. Simple flight profiles and manoeuvres, static and dynamic stability, stall, spin and spiral dive.
  3. Take-off forces and moments, wind component, ground effect wing tip vortices.
  4. Aircraft piston engine design and characteristics, major engine and airframe systems.
  5. Theory of super and turbo chargers, flight instruments and basic autopilot.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 113 x 2 hour lectureNot OfferedNot Offered
Semester 113 x 1 hour tutorialNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences via ECU’s LMS as well as additional ECU learning technologies

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
TestProgress quizzes 10%
AssignmentScenario: Application of aerodynamic factors 20%
AssignmentScenario: Analysis and application of landing factors 30%
ExaminationEnd of semester examination 40%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
TestProgress quizzes 10%
AssignmentScenario: Application of aerodynamic factors 20%
AssignmentScenario: Analysis and application of landing factors 30%
TestFundamentals of Flight final assessment 40%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Assessment

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. Informal vivas may be conducted as part of an assessment task, where staff require further information to confirm the learning outcomes have been met. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work as well as any generative artificial intelligence tools that may have been used. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

  • Plagiarism: Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people or generative artificial intelligence tools, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).
  • Unauthorised collaboration (collusion): Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).
  • Contract cheating: Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.
  • Cheating in an exam: Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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School: Engineering

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Fundamentals of Flight

  • Unit Code

    SCA1125

  • Year

    2024

  • Enrolment Period

    2

  • Version

    3

  • Credit Points

    15

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online

  • Unit Coordinator

    Ms Fatemeh TAJROBEHKAR

Description

This is an introductory unit, essential to all students interested in pursuing an aviation career pathway The unit addresses major theoretical concepts relevant to both student pilots and general aviation professionals. The importance of basic aerodynamic theory for flight safety is emphasised and the peculiarities of light aircraft power plants and airframe systems are identified. The main concepts of visual air navigation, as a lead up to more sophisticated operations, are also clearly presented.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Examine the principal concepts of low speed aerodynamics and the creation, distribution and balance of aerodynamic forces in flight.
  2. Classify the differences between aircraft stability and control.
  3. Apply aerodynamic concepts associated with take-off, landing and flight manoeuvres.
  4. Examine the characteristics and operation of normally aspirated aircraft piston engines and associated systems.
  5. Apply knowledge of the operation of airframe systems and basic flight instruments of a light aircraft.

Unit Content

  1. Relevant aerodynamic terminology, aerodynamic forces.
  2. Simple flight profiles and manoeuvres, static and dynamic stability, stall, spin and spiral dive.
  3. Take-off forces and moments, wind component, ground effect wing tip vortices.
  4. Aircraft piston engine design and characteristics, major engine and airframe systems.
  5. Theory of super and turbo chargers, flight instruments and basic autopilot.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 113 x 2 hour lectureNot OfferedNot Offered
Semester 113 x 1 hour tutorialNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences via ECU’s LMS as well as additional ECU learning technologies

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentScenario: Application of aerodynamic factors 30%
AssignmentScenario: Analysis and application of landing factors 30%
ExaminationEnd of semester examination 40%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentScenario: Application of aerodynamic factors 30%
AssignmentScenario: Analysis and application of landing factors 30%
ExaminationEnd of semester examination 40%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Assessment

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. Informal vivas may be conducted as part of an assessment task, where staff require further information to confirm the learning outcomes have been met. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work as well as any generative artificial intelligence tools that may have been used. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

  • Plagiarism: Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people or generative artificial intelligence tools, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).
  • Unauthorised collaboration (collusion): Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).
  • Contract cheating: Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.
  • Cheating in an exam: Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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